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<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="A Window, Tux, and the BSD Daemon" width="160" height="175" align="right">
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.6.2</font><BR><BR>
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.6.5</font><BR><BR>
About a year after the bugfix release 2.6.2 we have a new intermediate (bugfix+)
release. Here a brief summary of changes :
<ul>
<li>CPU: extra 5-10% emulation speedup with new trace linking optimization
<li>CPU: implemented new instructions (e.g. AVX-512, SHA, XSAVEC)
<li>CPUDB: added 2 new CPU models
<li>Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness (including some critical ones)
<li>Gui debugger output window now can be used as a log viewer
<li>Added built-in slirp (user-mode networking) support (ported from Qemu)
<li>Added global sound config option and volume control support to the devices
<li>Added new experimental gui 'vncsrv" using the LibVNCServer library
<li>Rewrite of the bximage utility in C++ for image creation, conversion and resize
</ul>
The binary packages for Linux and Windows are built with these featues :
<ul>
<li> x86-64 emulation with all optimizations enabled
<li> devices:
<ul>
<li> chipset: PCI (i430FX / i440FX), ACPI
<li> video: Bochs VBE, Cirrus SVGA and Voodoo1
<li> sound: SB16 (ISA) and ES1370 (PCI)
<li> network: NE2000 (ISA/PCI) and E1000 (PCI)
<li> USB: OHCI, UHCI, xHCI and 7 pluggable device types
</ul>
<li> Display libraries:
<ul>
<li> Linux: nogui, rfb, sdl, term, vncsrv, wx, x
<li> Windows: nogui, rfb, win32
</ul>
</ul>
<a href="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_6_5_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
Details on what has changed since version 2.6.2
</a>
<BR/><BR/>
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.6.2</font><BR><BR>
Bochs 2.6.2 is a bugfix release. Here is the list of changes :
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</ul>
</ul>
The binary packages for Linux and Windows are built with these featues :
<ul>
<li> x86-64 emulation with all optimizations enabled
<li> devices:
<ul>
<li> chipset: PCI (i430FX / i440FX), ACPI
<li> video: Bochs VBE, Cirrus SVGA and Voodoo1
<li> sound: SB16 (ISA) and ES1370 (PCI)
<li> network: NE2000 (ISA/PCI) and E1000 (PCI)
<li> USB: OHCI, UHCI, xHCI and 7 pluggable device types
</ul>
<li> Display libraries:
<ul>
<li> Linux: nogui, rfb, sdl, term, wx, x
<li> Windows: nogui, rfb, win32
</ul>
</ul>
<BR>
<a href="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_6_2_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
Details on what has changed since version 2.6.1
</a>
<BR/><BR/>
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.6.1</font><BR><BR>
About seven months after release 2.6 we have a new intermediate (bugfix+) release.
Here is the summary of changes :
<ul>
<li>CPU / CPUDB
<ul>
<li>Bochs is fully aligned with rev45 of the of Intel(R) Architecture Manual.
<ul>
<li>Implemented Supervisor Mode Access Protection (SMAP) support
<li>Implemented VMX APIC Registers Virtualization and VMX Virtual Interrupt Delivery
<li>Implemented VMCS Shadowing and #VE exception secondary VMEXIT controls emulation
<li>Implemented RDRAND and RDSEED instructions
</ul>
<li>CPUDB: Added AMD FX-4100 (Zambezi) configuration to CPUDB
<li>Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness (critical fixes for SVM and AVX2 emulation)
</ul>
<li>Bochs Debugger and Instrumentation
<ul>
<li>Use Enhanced GUI Debugger instead of old-style wx debugger with wx gui.
The old-style wx debugger support was deprecated and removed from the source code.
</ul>
<li>I/O Devices
<ul>
<li>Implemented 3dfx Voodoo Graphics card emulation based on DOSBox patch, to enable
configure with --enable-voodoo option.
<li>Hard drive / HD image
<ul>
<li>Added full save restore support for most of the disk image formats
<li>undoable / volatile mode: added support of other types of r/o base images
<li>DLL HD support rewritten and enabled for WIN32 host
</ul>
<li>PCI chipset
<ul>
<li>Implemented i430FX chipset emulation
<li>USB UHCI always enabled in the i440FX case
</ul>
</ul>
<li>Config interface
<ul>
<li>Configure option --enable-misaligned-sse moved to runtime option in .bochsrc. The old
option is deprecated and should not be used anymore.
<li>moved 'user_shortcut' bochsrc option to the 'keyboard' option
<li>save log options per device to bochsrc
<li>win32: implemented scrollable dialog items for large parameter lists
</ul>
<li>GUI and display libraries
<ul>
<li>Graphics snapshot feature rewritten to support all kinds of graphics modes
<li>wx: starting a second simulation without closing Bochs now almost possible
</ul>
<li>Tools
<ul>
<li>bxcommit: added support for converting flat to growing mode images
</ul>
</ul>
<BR>
<a href="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_6_1_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
Details on what has changed since version 2.6
</a>
<BR><BR>